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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






2. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






3. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






4. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






5. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






6. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






7. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






8. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






9. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






10. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






11. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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12. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






13. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






14. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






15. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






16. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






17. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






18. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






19. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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20. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






21. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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22. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






23. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






24. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






25. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






26. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






27. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






28. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






29. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






30. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






31. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






32. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






33. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






34. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






35. Individual Educational Plan






36. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






37. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






38. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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39. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






40. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






41. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






42. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






43. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






44. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






45. Wide Range Achievement Test






46. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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47. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






48. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






49. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






50. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.